Mike Nichols
Marie Antoinette Redux
And the underclasses, used to asking,
How many hours did you get last week?
lug their un-aborted snot-encrusted
waifs to the corporate citadels’ iron gates.
One fat CEO eventually emerges
and pronounces,
Let them eat cake, and binge-
watch their Netflix.
Mike L. Nichols is a graduate of Idaho State University and a recipient of the Ford Swetnam Poetry Prize. He lives and writes in Eastern Idaho. Look for his poetry in Rogue Agent, Scryptic Magazine, Ink&Nebula, Plainsongs Magazine, and elsewhere. Find more at mikenicholsauthor.com
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